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Simply Red release new David Bowie-style single and announce 2022 tour

18 May 2021, 14:54

By Tom Eames

Simply Red have unveiled their brand new single, as well as confirmed dates for their rescheduled tour.

Simply Red are back with brand new song, titled ‘Earth In A Lonely Space’. The song sees singer Mick Hucknall showcase his fantastic vocals, echoing the style of David Bowie in the process.

The track is the first new music since the band’s 2019 album Blue Eyed Soul .

Written by Mick, the song's video was directed and animated by the company Cine1080, which takese fans on a lonely journey through space.

Read more: Simply Red's greatest songs ever, ranked

“The earth itself is in a lonely place,” Mick said of the track. “It’s the job of any artist to try and capture the moment and right now, a lot of people are isolated and alone.”

Listen to the song below:

Simply Red - Earth In A Lonely Space (Official Video)

Meanwhile, Simply Red have confirmed the dates for their 2022 UK tour. The full dates are as follows:

February 22

• Wednesday 2: DUBLIN, 3Arena
• Friday 4: HULL, Bonus Arena
• Saturday 5: HULL, Bonus Arena
• Sunday 6: MANCHESTER, AO Arena
• Tuesday 8: NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, Newcastle Utilita Arena
• Wednesday 9: LEEDS, first direct Arena
• Friday 11: GLASGOW, SSE Hydro
• Saturday 12: LIVERPOOL, M&S Bank Arena
• Sunday 13: BIRMINGHAM, Resorts World Arena
• Tuesday 15: BOURNEMOUTH, Bournemouth Int'nl Centre
• Wednesday 16: BOURNEMOUTH, Bournemouth Int'nl Centre
• Thursday 17: NOTTINGHAM, Motorpoint Arena Nottingham
• Saturday 19: LONDON, O2 Arena
• Sunday 20: LONDON, O2 Arena
• Tuesday 22: BRIGHTON, Centre
• Wednesday 23: BRIGHTON, Centre
• Thursday 24: CARDIFF, Motorpoint Arena

Tickets for the tour are on sale here .

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LIVE REVIEW: Simply Red at Royal Hospital, Chelsea

When Tom Jones opened the first of 2022 Live at Chelsea in the open-air courtyard concerts, he had perfect weather where all eyes could be on the stage instead of up in the sky out of fear that buckets of rain would ruin the festival. Simply Red was less lucky, the temperature had fallen, and the clouds were permanently dark and sporadically burst.

For every item of merchandise purchased, another three ponchos were bought. Those who had come in shorts and t-shirts were shivering, and no matter how many cups of coffee at £4 each were consumed, the chills remained.

Support act “country singer” Megan McKenna herself misjudged the weather and addressed the stage in a florescent hen party styled dress and white shoes. Whilst 2022 marks 30 years since Simply Red’s Stars LP was released, their Love and the Russian Winter or Blue albums may have been more relevant indicators of the atmosphere before Simply Red addressed the stage.

Mick Hucknall dressed simply in black, and his six-piece band opened the set by playing two lesser-known Picture Book LP songs, “Look At You Now” and “Come to My Aid”, from their debut 1985 LP. “Ring That Bell”, from Simply Red’s latest LP, Blue-Eyed Soul album, allowed Hucknall, now 62, to demonstrate that his vocal capabilities had yet to peak.

After Hucknell joked about ensuring people had brought sunscreen, the audience began to feel more confident by standing up and moving forwards as Simply Red began playing Stars material and hits, including “A New Flame” and “Holding Back the Years”. The nostalgia in keeping the same arrangements was given a nod of approval by the poncho-attired masses. The late nineties dance music arrangements on “Ain’t That A Lot of Love” and the early nineties dance music piano chords on “Something Got Me Started”, where bassist Steve Lewington sang “Yes I would”, were staples decades loyal Simply Red fans could not do without.

Hucknall spoke about how the sixties was the best era for music and wished Paul McCartney a happy eightieth birthday; he was born on the same day as his daughter. From impersonating McCartney, Mick imitated Barry White and covered White’s “Its Only Love, ” featured on Simply Red’s third 1989 LP, A New Flame .

Many of Simply Red’s hits have been covers that the band has reinterpreted with either reggae or a funk and soul twist where Mick was able to showcase his full singing capacity. Over five cover songs beginning with Gregory Isaac’s “Night Nurse”, were played at the Chelsea Royal Hospital. “Money’s Too Tight (To Mention)”, originally by The Valentine Brothers and “If You Don’t Know Me by Now” by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes proved to be the most poignant.

Despite Stars being shortlisted for the 1992 Mercury Music Prize, Simply Red played just four songs in total from this album. The most poignant amidst the current geo-political climate provides to be the Simply Red original “Your Mirror” as Hucknall sang “, I’ve got to stand up for myself this society don’t care about nobody else” and “I’ve got not to care even if I know that this world is meant to share…”. Simply Red also played their 1995 number one hit single “Fairground”, which, unlike the other songs played, had an enhanced added Latin twist injected into it.

Whilst Simply Red offered few reinterpretations of their classic hits, band cohesion, Mick’s soulful voice and soulful soundtrack with occasion funk, dance and reggae elements were crowd-pleasers. Simply Red fans received everything they could have expected the band to have delivered and quickly forgot about the quintessentially British summertime weather.

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• Ain't That a Lot of Love by Homer Banks
• Holding Back the Years by The Frantic Elevators
• If You Don't Know Me by Now by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
• It's Only Love Doing Its Thing by Barry White
• Money's Too Tight (To Mention) by The Valentine Brothers
• Night Nurse by Gregory Isaacs
• You Make Me Feel Brand New by The Stylistics
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Bonus Arena, Hull The singer radiates contentment as a sea of middle-aged couples sway along to his pop-soul smashers

‘W e’ve made it. We’re still alive!” begins Mick Hucknall . He’s obviously talking about the pandemic – more sombrely dedicating the gig to “all those who didn’t make it”. However, he could be describing the 37 years in which he’s been through some 20-odd band members, womanising, alcoholism and a brief band split to emerge as a happily married 61-year-old who radiates warmth and contentment. Despite selling 50m albums, it’s years since Simply Red’s pop-soul was contractually obliged to blare from every wine bar and taxi in the country, although you’d never know it from the sea of middle-aged couples swaying along and marvelling at the Huck’s timelessly honeyed chops.

After six years off the road, his famous hair hasn’t gone simply grey but the introductions are as rusty as the barnet. The Huck announces wrong songs (“Er, this isn’t For Your Babies”), shouts “Let’s go back to 1988! Er… 1985!” and introduces Gregory Isaacs’ lovers rock classic Night Nurse as “Sort yer cold out.” Such endearing off-piste moments are welcome in Simply Red’s otherwise succession of machine-polished smashers, in which the newest song dates from 2007.

Hucknall’s career wasn’t built on experiment, but Homer Banks’s 1966 northern soul stomper (Ain’t That) A Lot of Love is reworked as deep house. Visuals of the stricken planet remodel Come To My Aid into a climate change anthem and it’s hard not to admire how 1987’s The Right Thing cheekily sneaked the line “I’m getting harder now!” into the Top 20. The socialist singer’s yell of “It’ll get a lot worse!” before Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) seems to reference the cost of living crisis, but the crowd come for old hits and get them. Sole other original member Ian Kirkham blows up a sax storm on the slinky, underrated Thrill Me. Stars, Fairground and the rest start dancing in the aisles, before Harold Melvin’s If You Don’t Know Me By Now becomes the celebratory singsong of a band and audience enjoying growing old together.

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Review: No holding back Simply Red as Mick Hucknall rocks Live at Marquee stage

Mick Hucknall on stage with Simply Red at the Marquee in Cork. 

The sun made a welcome appearance as Cork welcomed Simply Red back to the Live at the Marquee stage. 

The concert was one of the most anticipated shows for 2022 and the weather set the stage for a perfect evening at the docklands venue.

The feeling of joy in the crowd was palpable as they gathered to see one of Manchester’s most successful exports take over an Irish stage once more.

Since the band’s formation in 1985, Simply Red, led by veteran hitmaker Mick Hucknall, has sold over 50m albums and garnered fans from around the world.

Many of them hail from the Emerald Isle, where Hucknall has deep connections. 

Earlier this year, the singer posted a photograph of his newly issued Irish passport. 

With family in Co Offaly and part ownership of an estate and fishery in Co Donegal, it’s fair to say that Hucknall can be claimed as one of our own.

And that’s exactly what it felt like when the 61-year-old ran onto the red-lit stage with as much energy as ever.

“It’s great to be back here, absolutely fantastic,” he told the crowd in between notes. 

There wasn’t much time for chit-chat.

Greatest hits

Fans were promised a mash-up of Simply Red’s greatest hits for this year’s tour, which is exactly what they got.

Kicking off with ' Look at You Now', the band fired on all cylinders, delivering career classics such as 'Fairground', 'Stars', and 'Money’s Too Tight to Mention', as well as a host of newer songs, with a musicality that hasn’t aged a day.

The crowd sang along to every song they could, cheering especially loud when the first notes of 'Holding Back the Years' rang out. 

From families to couples and groups of old friends, the audience was united in a cheerful singalong.

With another stellar performance under their belt, Simply Red will be travelling to Belfast for their second and final Irish tour date on Thursday, while the cast of Riverdance will make their way south to take over the Marquee until June 5. 

As the sun disappeared over Cork, Hucknall and his bandmates proved they've simply still got it.

“It’s been really great seeing all these smiling faces tonight, everyone singing along,” Hucknall said before finishing out with ‘If You Don’t Know Me by Now’. 

“It’s like old times, isn’t it?” he declared.

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